If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
C. S. LewisWe have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
C. S. LewisGod sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C. S. LewisOne of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.
C. S. Lewis